（不足10人评分）

35人收藏

共12首歌曲

在网易云音乐打开

艺人

Birdsongs of the Mesozoic

语种

英语

厂牌

Cuneiform

发行时间

1991年06月01日

专辑类别

录音室专辑

---

专辑介绍

by Rick Anderson

With Pyroclastics, Birdsongs of the Mesozoic returned somewhat to its roots. Its signature sound -- pulsing keyboards, jagged harmonies, weird time signatures, slash-and-burn guitar -- is back stronger than ever; &Shortwave Longride& and &Pleasure Island& would both have sounded more or less at home on Magnetic Flip (except for the presence of Ken Field's saxophone). And the band's hilarious rendition of the theme from The Simpsons is a wry look backwards as well, a reminder of the arrangement of the Rocky and Bullwinkle theme on their first album. Field has managed to insinuate himself so seamlessly into the Birdsongs sound by this point that while his saxophone lines do alter it noticeably, they do so subtly and from the inside -- note, in particular, the subtle jazz flavoring he gives to &Tyronglaea II& (otherwise an archetypal piece of old-fashioned Mesozoicism). The band also takes another run at Brian Eno's &Sombre Reptiles& (a piece they had tackled in an unreleased recording from 1983) and comes up with a surprisingly gentle (if ultimately unremarkable) rendition of Brian Wilson's hymn-like &Our Prayer.& Pyroclastics definitely marks a step forward for this band, but it remains rooted in its old strengths. Recommended.